My favorite performance of 2005 is Pierce Brosnan as a clinically depressed hitman in the black comedy The Matador , but if after 16 years ...

A simple re-vote. Best Actress of 2004 My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are not...

I can't blame math for this one — I nominated the top six movies and the two or three consensus picks in each of the other categories an...

Lots of complaints about my picks for 1995 so I started from scratch and went with a purely consensus set of nominees. A pretty grim list. ...

Another actress poll I shut down early — "shenanigans." By the way, before I forget (as I often do), these were 1993's alter...

Anthony Hopkins's performance in The Silence of the Lambs is iconic, deservedly so, one of the greatest villains in movie history. In ...

When I ran the poll for best actress of 1990 the first time around, I shut it down very early — a clear-cut case of voting vandalism. Not s...

I seem to remember some chirping from the peanut gallery back in the day for my failure to nominate Batman — first dark comic book movie,...

I'm not exactly a hobgoblin for foolish consistency, but if I nominated La Dolce Vita for best picture of 1961, then I really should p...

This is one of those years I exercised the "dingoes ate mah baby!" card and skipped over very actor-ly, Oscar-nominated per...